] DCE RPC has several other problems, the most important of which
] is that it isn't available universally, and very difficult to make it so
] quickly...
What's the problem here? I thought the source code base was easily
available. I understand that not all platforms already have it, but if
it were part of the reference implementation of the browser that
incorporated the next generation HTTP, I presume that that would
quickly be a non-problem. (This is really an innocent question -- I
have not followed the actual status of the "freely available" DCE RPC
source code, and it would be entirely possible that I've been taken in
by OSF hype...)
This should apply to any protocol/implementation we might choose, not
just DCE. I wouldn't rule out any existing protocol or implementaiton
just because it weren't widely deployed, if it otherwise met the requirements.
Paul